The terror attack that shook Brussels on Tuesday was carried out by radical Islamic terrorists. The style of the attack led many people to believe it was an Islamic terror attack long before officials confirmed that it was.

The people who survived the attack had no doubt who carried it out. One survivor stated that he heard two words just before the attack that confirmed just who was behind it: “Allahu Akbar.”

“I heard ‘Allahu Akbar.’ It all happened very quickly,” stated the survivor, who was not named.

Despite this and other evidence showing that this attack was carried out by Islamic radicals, President Barack Obama managed to continue his long standing tradition of refusing to say the phrase “radical Islamic terror.”

At his press conference in Cuba, where he spent all of 51 seconds talking about Brussels, Obama used the word “terror,” but never uttered the words “radical Islamic terror.” Perhaps he was afraid of offending someone.

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Other witnesses described the chaos and horror they experienced during the attacks.

“We heard an explosion to our left, we saw the wall crack and concrete fall. Then it was silent and not even 30 seconds later after we turned to run there was a second explosion,” said a survivor of the airport attack, according to a translation accompanying a video of her remarks.

“We saw the windows flying and there was smoke,” she added.

The survivor also spoke of hearing a third explosion, though there was none. Most likely she heard the crash of something, like the ceiling, falling down and in the heat of the moment mistook it for another explosion.